Learning To Live

Everyday I get a Google Alert email that contains every news article with "Cystic Fibrosis" in it, and usually has some blogs with CF in it too. I usually skim the email and then delete or just delete it without reading it. Sometimes I browse the blogs to see if mine is in there because once it was and my vanity usually wins. Most of the time it is just about people who have died from CF, and I want the research articles. I was just about to delete my Google Alert email today when I saw a gaggle of entries about gene therapy. Usually these articles are also a bunch of crap I don't want to read, or they are old news, but today I clicked. And I found this. God Bless the UK and the BBC. I knew there was a reason I liked those Brits. Here's to hoping that they can bring the research here without too much trouble.

Once I got into a huge fight with a friend over a LiveJournal post I made about stem cells. This was right at the time that Bush was fighting to get them all banned, and I was fighting to stop his attempts. I had written several letters to the editor and was published in my hometown's paper, T he Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Wisconsin State Journal , The Capital Times , and The Chicago Tribune . Needless to say, I was a pretty happy camper about my fighting that summer. That summer my friend one day insisted that we have coffee. She went on to tell me that she was deeply disturbed that I support stem cell research because it is killing babies. She also interrogated me about my religious beliefs and afterward I wrote a nice piece called, "If Jesus Sent me A Polaroid." And it has all my pro-killing babies agenda in it. Thanks for all that wonderful inspiration. All of this foolery caused me to ask myself and others, "If you force a stem cell to grow into a hu...